Salinas regresa a la politica?
El PRI ganara la eleccion presidencial en el 2012?
Este articulo se publico hace unos dias en el Financial Times.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/46466bdc-b5dc-11dd-ab71-0000779fd18c.html
Con la excusa de la presentacion de sus libros Salinas a empezado a ser otra vez una figura publica. Las reuniones que ha tenido han sido mas o menos exclusivas y con la elite de politicos del PRI y algunos empresarios.
El timing es el adecuado. Su hermano Raul fue exonerado casi de todos los cargos.
Salinas ha expresado abiertamente que busca el derecho a limpiar su reputacion.
La inteligencia del ex-presidente es innegable; la mayoria de los politicos del PRI lo buscan y los respetan.
Sin embargo su regreso a la arena publica oficial se ve dificil. Pero no hay que descartar que pudiera llegar a ser algun dia el gran poder tras el trono - a la Cordoba Montoya?-
Este articulo del Financial Times tiene dos parrafos que me llaman la atencion:
1) But the biggest motive behind Salinas’s return is probably that his party, the PRI, is back on the rise. After a decade of decline and a disastrous showing in the 2006 presidential election, it notched up several impressive election victories last year and recorded two more in the past two months – first in the southern state of Guerrero, where it delivered a huge blow to the leftwing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), the local incumbent; and then in the state of Coahuila, which shares a border with Texas, where it won more than 50 per cent of the vote in elections to appoint a new state legislature.
Most political analysts believe that when Mexicans go to the polls next July for mid-term elections, the PRI will regain its historical position as the country’s dominant party. If that happens, it could easily find itself standing at the open door of the presidency for the 2012 election – an unimaginable thought just a few years ago.
2) That abiding perception is why the PRI leaders of today may speak to him on the phone or even hold the occasional meeting behind closed doors, but they keep him at arm’s length when it comes to public engagements. Unfortunately for Salinas, it is also why he will almost certainly never be fully welcome in Mexico again, no matter how many books he writes or how much he argues that he was set up as the fall guy. As one former high-ranking figure in his government told me recently: “Salinas wants many things, but most of all he wants to be able to walk down the street in Mexico City and have people coming up to him to shake his hand. That will never happen.”
Buen fin de semana!! :)
